*New Book by Emerald Publishing* // /Hybrid Media Events – The Charlie Hebdo Attacks and the Global Circulation of Terrorist Violence/ // What are hybrid media events? Who creates them and what purpose do they serve in contemporary societies? This book addresses these questions by re-thinking media events in the contemporary digital media environment saturated by intensified circulation of radical violence. The empirical analyses draw on the investigation of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, in 2015, and the global response the attacks provoked in the media audience. The authors pay special attention to the hybrid dynamics between the different actors, platforms and messages in such media events, explaining how global news media, political elites and terrorists interact with ordinary media users in social media. The book demonstrates how, for example, hashtags such as “Je suis Charlie” circulate from one digital media platform to another and how emotions, speed of communication and fight for attention all become hybridized in digital media. All these elements, the authors argue, shape the ways in which we make sense of global media events in the present digital age. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Hybrid-Media-Events/?k=97817871... The authors: *Johanna Sumiala*is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. *Katja Valaskivi*is Vice Dean for Research at Faculty of Communication Sciences, and Research Director at Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET), University of Tampere. *Minttu Tikka*is a Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences/Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki. *Jukka Huhtamäki*Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory at Tampere University of Technology, TUT, is a Co-founder of Innovation Ecosystems Network. With best regards from Finland, Minttu Tikka Grant Researcher Media and Communication Studies Faculty of Social Sciences P.O. Box 54, 00014 University of Helsinki +358 50 311 4935<tel:+358%2050%203114935> minttu.mt.tikka@helsinki.fi<mailto:minttu.mt.tikka@helsinki.fi> http://blogs.helsinki.fi/mmttikka